Ben Uri is honored to launch the world tour of this seminal monumental installation of Yalta 1945 from 1986-87, previously exhibited at Documenta 8 in 1987 and at Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York in 1990, and not presented in public since, until now.
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid both graduated from the Stroganov Institute of Arts and Design in Moscow in 1967 when they first exhibited together at Moscow’s Blue Bird Café. They are amongst the Soviet Union’s most important non-conformist artists: founding ‘Sots Art’ which merged Socialist Realism, politicized Pop, and Conceptual art. In their multi-stylistic works of ‘conceptual eclecticism’, begun in 1972 and developed in Yalta 1945, they have become inventors of early post-modernism.
